Zuck actually posted about this on his Facebook[0]. Short answer is the first layoffs (seemingly) were rather random as far as who was affected. This new round

Zuck actually posted about this on his Facebook[0]. Short answer is the first layoffs (seemingly) were rather random as far as who was affected. This new round is a lot more deliberate by 1. Cutting projects/efforts that don't make the cutline 2. Letting go the surplus of people previously needed to execute on those projects > Since we reduced our workforce last year, one surprising result is that many things have gone faster. In retrospect, I underestimated the indirect costs of lower priority projects. > It's tempting to think that a project is net positive as long as it generates more value than its direct costs. But that project needs a leader, so maybe we take someone great from another team or maybe we take a great engineer and put them into a management role, which both diffuses talent and creates more management layers. That project team needs space, and maybe it tips its overall product group into splitting across multiple floors or multiple time zones, which now makes communication harder for everyone. That project team needs laptops and HR benefits and may want to recruit more engineers, so that leads us to hire even more IT, HR and recruiting people, and now those orgs grow and become less efficient and responsive to higher priority teams as well. Maybe the project has overlap with work on another team or maybe it built a bespoke technical system when it should have used general infrastructure we'd already built, so now it will take leadership focus to deduplicate that effort. Indirect costs compound and it's easy to underestimate them. > A leaner org will execute its highest priorities faster. People will be more productive, and their work will be more fun and fulfilling. We will become an even greater magnet for the most talented people. That's why in our Year of Efficiency, we are focused on canceling projects that are duplicative or lower priority and making every organization as lean as possible. [0]: https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/pfbid024Q9h2gvnYGmU6czAHYH6V2AwYB9D5mfWnrFPmVaChWHPcDCBbYo27eyZDEeXXSf4l https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/pfbid024Q9h2gvnYGmU6czAH...